
Eric Goodman was born in Brooklyn and educated at Yale and Stanford. For many years he directed the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He also founded Miami’s Low-Residency M.F.A. program and directed it from 2015-2018. Goodman’s five previous novels include Twelfth and Race, Child of My Right Hand, and In Days of Awe. He’s written episodic television, rock and roll lyrics, and more than 200 essays and stories that appeared in publications including North American Review, Travel and Leisure, LA Times Traveling in Style, Saveur, and Glamour. Goodman lives in upstate New York and Sonoma County with Susan Morgan, who lent her name and family history to the narrator of his sixth book, part novel, part memoir: Cuppy and Stew: The Bombing of Flight 629, A Love Story, which will be published in May, 2020, by IFSF Publishing.